The Independent Crossword Clues and Answers January 20, 2024
Across
| Engineer in Essex partly responsible for disturbing nature | EERINESS |
| Show embarrassment about author being rather rude | BLUISH |
| Feeble hosts live it up in a punishing manner | PUNITIVELY |
| You are to be removed from office young man | BEAU |
| American vessel brought back monarch from abroad | RAJA |
| One million standing for unwelcome burden | IMPOSITION |
| Limits of cognate sense affected meaning | ESSENCE |
| Formed a union started by takeover apparently | COUPLED |
| Determined to catch grey cuckoo, immediately before heron | SNOWYEGRET |
| Sound content for each broadcast | PURR |
| Prog rock band wanting second album to sound like Howling Wolf? | YELP |
| Add compound interest to begin with or default badly | FLUORIDATE |
| Steal inside information to finish off crime | TIPTOE |
| Sustained blow to the face? | HEADWIND |
Down
| Misty appearance of mass removed from whisked albumen | NEBULA |
| Put the finishing touches to flier that is about tax | TITIVATE |
| Small group receiving former record company’s 50% share of album? | SEMICIRCLE |
| Be controlled by veneer of orthodoxy? | OBEY |
| Ant-eater paralysed ants regularly | NUMBAT |
| Cut leak outside empty toilet | ESCALOPE |
| Plain stage in auditorium | STEPPE |
| Lacking money for fare from Scotland | SHORTBREAD |
| Type missing certain characteristics of liberal fairness | SANSERIF |
| Quiet high-pitched sound associated with English swallow | PIPEDOWN |
| King that hurt sycophant’s position? | CROUCH |
| Does possibly delay one seizing power | WAPITI |
| Keep moving in part of person’s sphere of vision | RETINA |
| Female leader leaves children land with strings attached | FIEF |
